Ents | The One Wiki to Rule Them All | Fandom powered by Wikia "We must not be hasty." — Treebeard in The Two Towers Ents, also known as Onodrim (Tree-host) by the Elves , are a very old race that appeared in Middle Earth at the same time that the elves did. They were apparently created at the behest of Yavanna after she learned of Aulë 's children, the dwarves , knowing that they would want to fell trees. Ents were envisioned as Shepherds of the Huorns , to protect the forests from orcs and other perils. The elves had tales of teaching the trees and the Ents to talk: although the Ents were sentient beings at the time, they did not know how to speak until the elves taught them. Treebeard spoke of the elves "curing the Ents of their dumbness", that it was a great gift that could not be forgotten ("always wanted to talk to everything, the old Elves did"). Ents are tree-like creatures, having become more and more like the trees that they herded. They vary in traits, from everything to height and size, colouring, and the number of fingers and toes.

An individual Ent more or less resembles the specific species of tree that they typically guard. For example, Quickbeam guarded huorns that resembled rowans, and thus looked very much like those huorns (tall and slender, etc.). Ents are very strong, as recounted by Merry and Pippin : "their punches can crumple iron like tinfoil, and they can tear apart solid rock like breadcrusts." In the Third Age of Middle-earth , the forest of Fangorn was apparently the only place ents still inhabited, although the huorns may still have survived elsewhere, as in the Old Forest. Contents Edit A group of Ents with Treebeard, the eldest Ent, in the center. From Peter Jackson's The Two Towers Almost nothing is known of the early history of the Ents — they apparently lived in and protected the large forests of Middle-earth in previous ages, and they briefly appear near the end of the First Age , attacking a band of Dwarves , apparently summoned by Beren and Lúthien .

Treebeard told of a time when apparently all of Eriador was one huge forest and part of his domain, but these immense forests were cut by the Númenóreans of the Second Age, or destroyed in the calamitous War of the Elves and Sauron of the 17th century of the Second Age. Treebeard's statement is also supported by remarks Elrond the half-elf made at the Council of Elrond. Elrond said that "Time was once when a squirrel could carry a nut from tree to tree from Rivendell to the Great Sea...", further indicating that all of Eriador was once a single vast primeval forest, of which Fangorn Forest was just "the eastern end of it" according to Treebeard. Treebeard boasted to Merry and Pippin about the strength of the Ents. He said that they were much more powerful than trolls , which Morgoth (in the Elder Days or First Age) supposedly made as imitations of the Ents, but did not come near to their power. He compares this with how orcs were Morgoth's imitation of elves.

There used to be entwives (literally "ent-women"), but they started to move farther away from the Ents because they liked to plant and control things, so they moved away to the region that would later become the Brown Lands across the Great River Anduin . This area was destroyed by Sauron , and the entwives disappeared. The ents looked for them, but have never found them. It is sung by the Ents that one day they will find each other, when they lose all else. In the Fellowship of the Ring, Sam Gamgee says his cousin Hal saw a walking tree in the north of the Shire. When Pippin and Merry tell Treebeard about the Shire, Treebeard says the entwives would like that land, suggesting Hal saw either an Entwife or a Huorn . It is safe to say that with no entwives and their slow decline with time, numbers of the Ents had dwindled to around fifty only by the end of The Third age. According to Treebeard there are no entings upon Middle-earth at the time of the Third Age, and there have not been any for quite some time. And there will never be any more entings afterwards either, "as there are no Entwives".

What exactly happened to the Entwives was something Tolkien wanted to keep a mystery, even to himself, but in one of his letters he said, "I think that in fact the Entwives have disappeared for good, being destroyed with their gardens in the War of the Last Alliance ." [1] An Ent shepherd of Fangorn Forest Evidence of the origin of the Ents can be found in the Valaquenta , in an exchange between Yavanna (a queen of the Valar, "...lover of all things that grow in the earth.") and Manwë ("...the first of all Kings: lord of the realm of Arda."), after Yavanna's spouse Aulë secretly endeavors to create the Dwarves . Aulë reminds her that the children of Ilúvatar (elves, men and now Dwarves) will exploit her creations for their own benefit, "though not without respect and gratitude." The defenselessness of her realm moves Yavanna to plead with Manwë: "My heart is anxious, thinking of the days to come. All my works are dear to me...

Shall nothing that I have devised be free from the dominion of others?” Manwë responds by asking, of all she holds dear, what she would have preserved against exploitation, and she answers: "...the Kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear... Would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!” Manwë, while deliberating, is overcome by a vision of the music of the Ainur , and grants her request: "Behold! When the Children awake, then the thought of Yavanna will awake also, and it will summon spirits from afar, and they will go among the kelvar and the olvar, and some will dwell therein, and be held in reverence, and their just anger shall be feared." Yavanna returns to her spouse Aulë and reports: " Eru is bountiful. Now let thy children beware! For there shall walk a power in the forests whose wrath they will arouse at their peril." He responds ominously: "Nonetheless they will have need of wood." Treebeard grabbing Pippin.

In The Two Towers , the second volume of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings , the ents — usually very patient, deliberate beings — do become angry at Saruman , whose armies are cutting down (in their eyes, killing) large numbers of their trees. They convene an Entmoot, a meeting of the Ents of Fangorn Forest at Derndingle to discuss the argument of going to war. The Last March of the Ents, as depicted in Peter Jackson's The Two Towers. After lengthy deliberation (though from the perspective of the Ents, this is very quick action), they come to the conclusion (in the book) to destroy Isengard, and head toward it. They are led by Treebeard , the oldest ent, and accompanied by the hobbits Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took . They destroy Isengard in an all-out assault and trap Saruman in the tower of Orthanc . During the ents' assault on Isengard, they destroyed the dams built by Saruman's minions and therefore flooded the place. After that, they moved many of their trees there and the place became known as the Watchwood.

Language Edit Ents are not hasty creatures; they take their time, and even their language is "unhasty". In fact, their language appears to be based on an ancient form of Common Eldarin , later enriched by Quenya and Sindarin , although it includes many unique 'tree-ish' additions. There are actually two different languages: Old Entish: originally, the Ents had a language of their own, described as long and sonorous; it was a tonal language (like Chinese ). It is unknown if a non-ent could even pronounce Old Entish correctly: it was filled with many subtle vowel shades, and was very longwinded. Only Ents spoke Old Entish, not because they kept their language a secret, as the dwarves did with Khuzdul, but because no other could master it. It was quite an alien language to all others. The huorns and trees of Fangorn Forest could understand Old Entish and converse with the Ents and each other with it. The only extant sample, a-lalla-lalla-rumba-kamanda-lindor-burúme, the word for hill (or possibly even just part of the name of a specific hill), was described as a very inaccurate sampling.

Even the elves, master linguists, could not learn Old Entish, nor did they attempt to record it due to its complex sound structure. The grammar structure of Old Entish was also quite bizarre, often described as a lengthy, long-winded discussion of a topic. There may not even have been a word for yes and no: such questions would be answered by a long monologue on why the Ent in question did or did not agree with the Ent who asked the question. The Ent Quickbeam was regarded as a very "hasty" Ent for answering a question before another Ent had finished: the end may only have been another hour away. Ents as a rule would say nothing in Old Entish unless it was worth taking a long time to say. For everyday language function, they usually resorted to "New" Entish. "New" Entish (never named as such in the text). Due to contact with the elves, the ents learned much. The ents found the Elvish Quenya to be a lovely language, and adapted it after their fashion to everyday use. However, they basically adapted Quenya vocabulary to Old Entish grammatical structure.

Thus, unlike Old Entish, the individual words of "New Entish" that characters such as Treebeard spoke were easily translatable. However, in context they formed lengthy run-on sentences of redundant adjectives that could still stretch well over an hour in length. For example, when Treebeard essentially wanted to tell Merry and Pippin, "There is a shadow of the Great Darkness in the deep dales of the forest", he literally said in New Entish, "Forest-golden-leaves, deep-dales-winter, forest-many-shadowed, deep-valley-black". Unlike Old Entish, a non-ent conceivably could speak "New" Entish. Even when speaking the Common Speech, Westron, Ents fell into the habit of adapting it into their grammatical structure of repeating compound adjectives used to express fine shades of meaning. The Elvish name for Ents is Onodrim , singular Onod. Attack of the Ents Tolkien later noted that the destruction of Isengard by the ents was based on his disappointment in Macbeth; when "Birnham Wood is come to castle Dunsinane", Tolkien was less than thrilled that it amounted to men walking on stage with leaves in their hats.

He decided that when he did that scene for himself, he'd do it right. Statue There are plans to erect a statue of Treebeard, by Tim Tolkien , J.R.R.'s great-nephew, near the latter's former home in Moseley, Birmingham. Etymology Edit The word "ent" was taken from Anglo-Saxon, where it means "giant". Tolkien may have extracted the word from the Anglo-Saxon poetry fragments orþanc enta geweorc = "work of cunning giants" and eald enta geweorc = "old work of giants", which described Ancient Roman ruins; see Orthanc . In this sense of the word, ents are probably the most ubiquitous of all creatures in fantasy and folklore, perhaps second only to dragons . The word ent, as it is historically used, can refer to any number of large, roughly humanoid creatures, including, but not limited to, giants, trolls , orcs, and even Grendel from the epic poem Beowulf.

In this meaning of the word, ents are one of the staples of fantasy and folklore/mythology, alongside wizards , knights, princesses, and dragons, although modern English-speakers would probably not call them by their traditional name. Tolkien's ents are very different from traditional ents, appearing as humanoid trees. They appear to have been inspired by the talking trees of many of the world's folklores. See Wikipedia's tree mythology article for more information. As with hobbit , ent is a term that in modern times is almost exclusively connected with J.R.R. Tolkien , and the usage of the term seldom evokes in people its earlier meanings. Tolkien-like Ents in non-Tolkien fiction Edit In fantasy and role-playing games such as Dungeons & Dragons, EverQuest, Magic: The Gathering, and the Warcraft PC game series, Tolkien-like ents are known as treants or treefolk, for copyright reasons (much like hobbits are only referred to as halflings in Dungeons & Dragons and EverQuest). In the video game Dota 2, Treant Protector's appearance, name, and voice are based heavily on Treebeard , the eldest of the Ent race.

Tolkien-like Ents are also depicted in the MMORPG of RuneScape (in the form of Spirit Trees planted by gnomes), as well as the real-time strategy game Myth: The Fallen Lords. In all their incarnations, these tree-people are very close in spirit to their Tolkien-esque forebears, although Dungeons & Dragons has also explored the concept of corrupt trees and tree-like monsters (akin to Old Man Willow and the Huorns of Fangorn). Somewhat akin to Ents are the ancients portrayed in the Warcraft universe. In the Dragon Age series there are tree-like creatures called sylvans, but these are simply trees possessed by malevolent spirits. In the video game Okami, there are cursed trees that attack by throwing poisonous fruit. However, these trees are merely possessed by dark magic and return to being normal trees once bloomed with the celestial brush. In the Harry Potter series, the Whomping Willow is a tree that seems to have a mind of its own and will attack anything that comes near it. The game Majesty: The Fantasy Kingdom Sim features daemonwoods, enchanted tree spirits that guard enemy lairs and attack player-characters that get too close. A tree-like Jedi appears in the Star Wars: Young Jedi Knights novels.

The species that the Jedi belonged to, the neti, were a species of tree-like shapeshifters that could assume their true, more tree-like form or a more humanoid form. C.S. Lewis , one of Tolkien's friends, included sentient trees in his Chronicles of Narnia. Treebeard, however, was based upon Lewis himself. A game called Heroes of Might and Magic III uses Tolkien-like ents, called dendroids, as units that one can use in battle. In The Wheel of Time series, the being known as "Someshta the Green Man", a nym, is very similar to an Ent in both appearance and attitude, in that he was a guardian of greenery in the story and his people worked to bring plants and trees to greater life. In the MMORPG Realm of the Mad God, Ents, Ent Ancients, and Ent gods are all monsters that you can fight. In the Elder Scrolls series, spriggans bear some resemblance to Ents; e.g., being made of tree bark, having the ability to blend into or with trees and forests, and being considered by many as the guardians of Tamriel's forests.

In the film Maleficent (2014), a tree army similar to Ents defend the homeland of the fairies when humans come to take the riches that are held in their kingdom. The Marvel character Groot bears many similarities to Ents. In the game League of Legends there are two characters that look a lot like an ent: Maokai and Ivern. Translations around the World Treebeard | The One Wiki to Rule Them All | Fandom powered by Wikia For other uses of Treebeard see Treebeard (disambiguation) Fangorn redirects here; for the forest, see Fangorn Forest "Things will go as they will; and there is no need to hurry to meet them." — Treebeard Treebeard, also known as Fangorn, was the oldest of the ents left in Middle-earth , an ancient tree-like being who is a "shepherd of trees". He has a very tall and stiff-limbed appearance, with bark-like skin and leafy hair.

In chapter 5 of The Two Towers , Gandalf calls Treebeard "...the oldest living thing that still walks beneath the Sun upon this Middle-earth." In The Return of the King , chapter 6, " Many Partings ", Celeborn addresses Treebeard as "Eldest." Contents The Lord of the Rings :Treebeard Treebeard grabs Pippin. With the arrival of the Istari in the year TA 1000 of the Third Age, Saruman came to Fangorn and befriended Treebeard, and would often visit him. The two would talk, discussing various subjects, with Saruman gathering information about the forest itself, and in particular its intertwining paths. As the years passed and with no Entings due to the loss of the Entwives, the number of ents fell. Some ents in their old age became still and silent, almost becoming tree like as they slumbered. Treebeard, Finglas , Fladrif , Quickbeam and around fifty remained, some younger, some older.

When Sauron's shadow began to spread across the land once more, Treebeard and the Ents remained in Fangorn, continuing to tend the trees, and taking no part in the affairs of Men, Elves and Wizards. However, they were brought into the war when Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took escaped from Saruman's Orcs , became lost in Fangorn Forest and befriended Treebeard. Upon learning that Saruman was cutting down the forest to power his war effort, an angry Treebeard called all the ents together for an Entmoot . After three days of deliberation, they decided to attack Isengard , in an event known as the Last March of the Ents. Leading the attack, Treebeard helped to bring down Isenguard's walls and utterly destroy them, save the tower of Orthanc and Saruman himself who sat in his tower with his Man servant Grima Wormtongue . The Ent's also broke the dam wall which had starved the once green and beautiful Wizards Vale of all it's water and flooded Sarumans pits, mines and machines of war.

Once Isengard was cleansed, Treebeard remained to guard over Saruman, but was ultimately unable to keep him, due to the power of Saruman's voice and the fact that Treebeard could not bear to lock any living thing up. After the War of the Ring and Beyond Edit After Aragorn was crowned king, he promised Treebeard that the Ents could prosper again and spread to new lands with the threat of Mordor gone, and renew their search for the Entwives. However, Treebeard sadly lamented that forests may spread once more, but the Ents would not, predicting that the few remaining Ents would remain in Fangorn forest until they slowly dwindled in number. However, he still held some hope for finding the Entwives, as he asked Merry and Pippin to watch for them near the Shire, and to bring word if they were to find them. Treebeard's ultimate fate is not known. While he aged very slowly and was extremely long-lived, he was not immortal. He most likely underwent the same fate of all the Ents: eventually settling down in one place, growing roots and leaves, and essentially becoming a tree himself, ceasing conscious thought.

In her final words to Treebeard during their parting at Isengard , Galadriel says she will "Not [see him] in Middle-earth, nor until the lands that lie under the wave are lifted up again. Then in the willow-meads of Nan-tathren we may meet in the spring. Farewell!" This suggests that in the future, perhaps after the Dagor Dagorath , when the lands of Beleriand will be recovered again, Treebeard and, possibly all the other Ents, will awaken again and that he will meet her again in Nan-Tathren. Treebeard. In Peter Jackson 's films The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers ( 2002 ) and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King ( 2003 ), Treebeard is a combination of a large animatronic model and a CGI construct; his voice is performed by John Rhys-Davies , who also plays Gimli . In the movie The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002) , the Ents at the Entmoot initially decline Merry and Pippin's request for help.

Treebeard is carrying the hobbits through the forest, when Pippin gets an idea. He asks Treebeard to carry them towards Isengard , because that is the last place Saruman would look for them. When Treebeard gets close to the forest's edge, he sees the devastation wrought by Saruman's orcs. The trees have all been chopped down to serve as fuel for Saruman's war machine. Treebeard then makes a momentous decision, and calls for the other Ents. "Come, my friends. The Ents are going to war. It is likely that we go to our doom. The last march of the Ents." — The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers They attack Isengard and manage to flood it. In the book, Treebeard and the Ents decide to attack Saruman without any such coercion. They were already most likely aware of this situation. When Gandalf arrives at Isengard in The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) , Treebeard refers to Gandalf as "young master Gandalf". Video games Edit Treebeard is featured in The Lord of the Rings: Conquest in both the good and evil campaigns.

In the first he appears in the Battle of Isengard level, where the player must deliver Gríma Wormtongue 's key to Orthanc to him. In the second, an alternate timeline in which Frodo took the One Ring for himself sees Treebeard killed by the Balrog known as Durin's Bane . He also appears in LEGO The Lord of the Rings: The Video Game , in which he is a playable character when one of the Hobbits is riding on his shoulder. Trivia Edit Lists of miscellaneous information should be avoided. Please relocate any relevant information into appropriate sections or articles. It's believed that many of Treebeard's mannerisms were based on Tolkien's friend C.S. Lewis , a loud, bombastic man known for his powerful stride and overwhelming presence. The Top Trumps card game lists Treebeard as being 17,051 years old. This page uses content from Wikipedia . The original article was at Treebeard . The list of authors can be seen in the page history . As with The One Wiki to Rule Them All , the text of Wikipedia is available under the Commons Attribution-Share Alike license.

Appearances lord of the rings - Why does the drinking the water in Fangorn make Pippin and Merry grow taller? - Science Fiction & Fantasy Stack Exchange Why does the drinking the water in Fangorn make Pippin and Merry grow taller? In Fangorn Forest, Merry and Pippin drink Treebeard's Ent-draught (although, in the movie this is just water from a spring), which makes them taller. Why does this happen? up vote 17 down vote Source text from The Two Towers: The drink was like water, indeed very like the taste of the draughts they had drunk from the Entwash near the borders of the forest, and yet there was some scent or savour in it which they could not describe; it was faint, but it reminded them of the smell of a distant wood borne from afar by a cool breeze at night. The effect of the draught began at the toes, and rose steadily through every limb, bringing refreshment and vigour as it coursed upwards, right to the tips of the hair… He poured them out two full bowls from a stone jar; but from a different jar.

The taste was not the same as it had been the night before: it was earthier and richer, more sustaining and food-like, so to speak. It wasn't water, it was Ent-Draught ( link #2 ): Ent-draughts were the mysterious and potent waters consumed by the Ents. Though little is known about them in detail, they seem to have been made from river-water, but with unique and subtle flavours reflecting the Ents' association with trees and forests. The first time Merry and Pippin imbibed an ent-draught it reminded them of the smell of a distant wood brought from afar by a cool night breeze. The second time they drank the flavour was earthier and richer, more food-like. Their power of growth was most evident when they were drunk by beings other than Ents: the Ent-draughts taken by Merry and Pippin added three inches or more to their heights, making them the tallest Hobbits in the history of the Shire. As best I can tell, nothing else is explained about the drink, but Fangorn is an ancient forest, and no one knows much about it.

It appears to be a more "wholesome" alternative to the "orc-draught" that Merry and Pippin were given while with the Uruk-hai, and in that way, possibly comparable to Lembas. Ugluk thrust a flask between his teeth and poured some burning liquid down his throat: he felt a hot fierce glow flow through him. The pain in his legs and ankles vanished. ... Merry got up. ’Yes,’ he said, ’I can manage it. Lembas does put a heart into you! A more wholesome sort of feeling, too, than the heat of that orc-draught. I wonder what it was made of. Better not to know, I expect. Let’s get a drink of water to wash away the thought of it!" (The Two Towers, The Uruk-Hai) To some degree, it was known to other peoples or became known to them, as Gimli notes: 'That you certainly are not,' said Gimli. 'But what did I say?

Mortals cannot go drinking ent-draughts and expect no more to come of them than of a pot of beer.' (The Return of the King, The Field of Cormallen) Suffice to say, it's a minor plot point in the series. Ents - Tolkien Gateway Ents Created by Ilúvatar at Yavanna 's request Locations The Ents were sentient, humanoid beings created at the request of Yavanna to protect the trees from other creatures, particularly Dwarves, [1] and thus were called "Shepherds of the Trees". Contents [ edit ] Creation After the Dwarves, the Ents are the most ancient people and living creatures surviving in the Third Age . [2] [3] They were not a part of the Music of the Ainur [4] however during the Music Yavanna sung about trees who received the wind of Manwë and rain of Ulmo and sung to Ilúvatar . [5] Eru gave life to Aulë 's children, the Dwarves , whom he made from stone; but they were wont to fell trees.

She then asked also herself (through Manwë) for His mercy, and to give life to growing things as He did with the Dwarves. [5] At her behest, Ents came into being, trees inhabited by souls [5] created/sent by Eru; or spirits who took the likeness of trees because of their devotion to them. [4] Ents were envisioned as Shepherds of the Trees and their duty was to protect the forests from Orcs , Dwarves and other perils. [5] The males were devoted to Oromë while the Entwives to Yavanna. [4] The Ents perhaps were created around the same time as the Elves . [6] The Eldar [note 1] loved to talk to everything and had tales of teaching the trees to talk. They gave them the desire to speak and taught them Elvish . [2] Treebeard said the Elves "curing the Ents of their dumbness" was a great gift that could not be forgotten. [7] Before even Morgoth returned to the North the first Ents were not as wise or strong as in later times.

They developed a language, Entish , which was much simpler back then, and had very small knowledge of other languages . [4] [ edit ] Rise and Decline As Elrond said "Time was once when a squirrel could carry a nut from tree to tree from Rivendell to the Great Sea...". [8] Nearly all of Eriador was one huge forest and part of Entish domain. Some Ents passed into East Beleriand and perhaps Tasarinan . [7] An Ent-host showed up near Dolmed and helped Beren against the Dwarves of Nogrod who sacked Doriath and slew King Thingol ; the Dwarves were driven to the shadow woods of Ered Lindon and no-one managed to exit. [9] [10] Luca Bonatti - Farewell to Fangorn There used to be Entwives , but during the First or the Second Age they started to move farther away from the Ents because they liked to plant and control small things like vegetables, grass and flowers while the male Ents tended the larger trees of the great forest. [6] The Entwives passed the Anduin and went to the region that would later become the Brown Lands .

After Morgoth was overthrown, their gardens blossomed and they taught Men agriculture who honored them. [7] But a time came in the Second Age when these immense forests were cut by the Númenóreans [11] or destroyed in the calamitous War of the Elves and Sauron during the 17th century of that Age. The shrinking of the forest solidified their separation from the Entwives. The Fangorn Forest was just the Eastern End of that immense forest, and one of its small remnants. The gardens of the Entwives were destroyed by Sauron , and they disappeared. The Ents looked for them in vain and it is sung by the Ents that one day they will find each other but there is very scarce hope that they survived. [12] In the Third Age , the Fangorn Forest was apparently the only place Ents still inhabited, although the Ent-like Huorns may still have survived elsewhere, as in the Old Forest . The Ents grew old without hope of having Entings without the Entwives. Some grew 'treeish' and ceased moving or speaking. [6] Halfast Gamgee reportedly encountered a "Tree-man" near the Shire .

[13] [ edit ] The March of the Ents "The Ents are going to war!" ― Treebeard About T.A. 2950 Saruman 's armies began harassing the few remaining Ents and cutting down large numbers of their trees. During the War of the Ring the Ents—usually a very patient, deliberate people—were spurred by Meriadoc Brandybuck and Peregrin Took . They convened an Entmoot , a meeting of the Ents at Derndingle . Ted Nasmith - The Tree Shepherds After lengthy deliberation (though from the perspective of the Ents, this was very quick action), they marched on Saruman's fortress at Isengard : the last march of the Ents. They were led by Treebeard, the oldest Ent, and accompanied by the Hobbits Merry and Pippin. They destroyed Isengard in an all-out assault and trapped Saruman in the tower of Orthanc . They flooded Nan Curunír and transformed it into a forested area which they called Treegarth of Orthanc .

Following the reunification of Arnor and Gondor , Treegarth became a part of the Reunited Kingdom and King Elessar declared it an Entish realm, granting the Ents complete self-governance. [14] The Ents remained in Fangorn where they probably dwindled in the following Ages , [6] but Galadriel wished to Treebeard that they would meet again in Tasarinan, when Beleriand is lifted again from the waves, in Spring . [14] [ edit ] Appearance and traits Ents were 14-foot tall creatures like humanoid trees with very thick skin resembling tree bark. They resembled the trees that they shepherded. An individual Ent more or less resembled the specific species of tree that they typically guarded or honored, to the point of the personality one might expect from that tree. [6] Thus they varied in height and size, colouring, and n number of fingers and toes. For example, Quickbeam guarded rowan trees and thus looked very much like a rowan. There were trees that were awake or half-awake, and some were entish and Ents could awake or talk with some of them. Treebeard aroused some Huorns to destroy Isengard.

[15] Ents were dwelling in Ent-houses and were nourished by Ent-draughts . They were immortal (although they could be burned) and along with it, they were deliberate and slow in thought, decision and action. Their slow, long-winded language reflected this; of other languages they preferred Quenya , which they also spoke in an agglutinating, long-winded way like Entish. However, once aroused, they possessed great strength, which resembled the age-long action of trees accelerated, crushing rocks and moving earth in seconds. [6] Treebeard boasted that they were much more powerful than Trolls , which Morgoth supposedly made as imitations of the Ents (he compares this with how Orcs were an imitation of Elves ). The length of an ent-stride was about 4 feet. With about 2.2 strides per second, an Ent could cover a speed of about 6 miles per hour [16] [ edit ] Etymology and names Ent is supposed to represent the language of the Vales of Anduin [17] and is perhaps a name given to them by the Rohirrim .

[6] The Sindarin name for Ents, as a race, is Onodrim , and as individuals Onod (pl. Enyd). [17] The Quenya name of the Ents is possibly Onyalie with the individual being *Onya. [18] The word Ent is derived from Old English ent, meaning "giant" (from eoten, Norse jotun), although the Ents were unrelated to the giants or the jotuns . [17] [19] It has been noted that ent "probably means some kind of giant", but that the exact usage or meaning of the word in Old English is unknown. [20] [ edit ] Inspiration At several points, Tolkien specifically stated that the Ents were a spontaneous invention while writing Treebeard (chapter) , without any recollection of previous thought or premeditation. [21] [22] [4] In another point, Tolkien admitted that the Ents perhaps had a remote influence from the animate trees of the Fairy Land in George MacDonald 's Phantastes . [23] Whilst in a letter to W.H.

Auden , Tolkien notes that they were perhaps borne from his own frustration with Shakespeare 's Macbeth : "Their pan in the story is due, I think, to my bitter disappointment and disgust from schooldays with the shabby use made in Shakespeare of the coming of 'Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill'". [24] [ edit ] Portrayal in adaptations 2001-03: The Lord of the Rings (film series) : Ents in The Lord of the Rings (film series) were portrayed as, perhaps, more tree-ish than in the books. For example, the books describe them as having smooth skin; the movie has them with skin like thick and rough bark. In the movie adaption, the Ents at the Entmoot decide that this is "not our war", despite strong protest from Merry. The scene is also shorter, cutting out Bregalad completely; Treebeard is the only Ent who is named and speaks on screen. Treebeard is about to take them north to the border, when Pippin insists that they go South instead, because "the closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm".

This "does not make sense" to Treebeard, but he does as they ask, and sees the ruin and destruction that Saruman has wrought on southern Fangorn. Treebeard then calls the Ents to battle with his booming Ent-call, and they appear out of the forest as if they had been standing there waiting for it. That they do not know the borders of their own forest is another possible logical gap. But others have accepted Jackson's technique as valid, because of the seemingly minor actions of Merry and Pippin throughout The Two Towers. 1000+ images about Coming of the Ents on Pinterest | Alan lee, Hobbit and The lord Forward Treebeard is one of Tolkien's most loved characters, an Ent or 'tree shepherd' encountered by Merry and Pippin in Fangorn Forest. I've chosen to paint the moment he spots the two Hobbits on the knoll and overhears their conversation. The quotation at the bottom of the painting reads: 'Almost felt like you liked the forest! That's good! That's uncommonly kind of you!' See More Fangorn - Lotro-Wiki.com Fangorn 5 Reference Lore Fangorn is the name of Treebeard ...

or Treebeard is the name of Fangorn, he is not quite certain which came first! Treebeard, the Ent , the oldest Shepherd of the Trees, once over saw forests which stretched from one edge of Middle-earth to the other. According to Elrond: "Time was when a squirrel could go from tree to tree from what is now the Shire to Dunland west of Isengard." Of this vast forest, according to Treebeard, Fangorn forest was "just the East End". And indeed, you rescued a walking tree in Bindbole Wood, in the North Farthing. ( Quest:Web-cutter ) You have previously encountered remnants of this ancient wood in The Old Forest of Bree-land where traces of the Entwives can be found in their flowers. (Deed: Flowers of the Old Forest ), in Mirkwood , corrupted by Sauron. The Brown Lands contain the garden of the Entwives. One wonders who is older -- Treebeard or Tom Bombadil ? Fangorn Forest, in the North of Rohan, bordering on the Misty Mountains, was the oldest part of Treebeard's realm, it was here the Ents retreated.

Treebeard maintained several Ent-houses in Fangorn Forest, with the one at Wellinghall in the flanks of Methedras (the southernmost peak of the Misty Mountains, overlooking Isengard ; it was also the source of the River Isen ), including a tree-lined courtyard, furnishings of different kinds, and a rocky bay with a curtain of falling water. Location The fabled Forest of Fangorn is encountered from multiple zones. One first encounters it on the edge of the Ring of Isengard from the Ox-clan Merchant Camp , in the instance, Fangorn's Edge . Next, one brushes UNDER the Edge of Fangorn while in the Limlight Gorge area of the Great River in another instance, the Roots of Fangorn Then there are two large questing areas -- the Eaves of Fangorn , north of the Entwash Vale and the Balewood in Wildermore, both in East Rohan. These are normal questing areas, traversed also as part of the Epic Quest line. Additional Lore In the Willow-meads Of Tasarinan The Road Goes Ever On is a song cycle that has been published as sheet music and as an audio recording.

The music was written by Donald Swann, and the words are taken from poems in J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth writings, especially The Lord of the Rings. With Tolkien's approval, Donald Swann wrote the music for this song cycle, and much of the music resembles English traditional music or folk music. The sole exception is the Quenya song "Namárië," which was based on a tune by Tolkien himself and which has some affinities to Gregorian chant. Of particular interest here, Swann composed: "In the Willow-meads Of Tasarinan". From The Lord of the Rings vol. 2, The Two Towers, Book 3, Chapter 4 Treebeard's description of Fangorn to Merry and Pippin as he strode through Fangorn on his way to Wellinghall. In the willow-meads of Tasarinan I walked in the Spring. Ah! the sight and the smell of the Spring in Nan-tasarion! And I said that was good. I wandered in Summer in the elm-woods of Ossiriand. Ah! the light and the music in the Summer by the Seven Rivers of Ossir! And I thought that was best.

To the beeches of Neldoreth I came in the Autumn. Ah! the gold and the red and the sighing of leaves in the Autumn in Taur-na-neldor! It was more than my desire. To the pine-trees upon the highland of Dorthonion I climbed in the Winter. Ah! the wind and the whiteness and the black branches of Winter upon Orod-na-Thôn! My voice went up and sang in the sky. And now all those lands lie under the wave, And I walk in Ambarona, in Tauremorna, in Aldalómë, In my own land, in the country of Fangorn, Where the roots are long, And the years lie thicker than the leaves In Tauremornalómë. After finishing this song Treebeard walked on silently through the silent woods. [1] Many Partings Said Fangorn the Ent to Galadriel and Celeborn: 'Long, long ago when we met by stock and by stone, A vanimar, vanimálion nostari! It is sad that we should meet only thus at the ending.

For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think that we shall meet again. And Celeborn said: 'I do not know, Eldest.' But Galadriel said: 'Not in Middle-earth, nor until the the lands that lie under the wave are lifted up again. Then in the willow-meads of Tasarinan we may meet in the Spring. Farewell!' [2] Reference ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings, The Two Towers, "Treebeard" ↑ J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King, "Many partings" The Age of the Ring Treebeard puts them down and they look up to see the White Wizard. Scene 14 ~ The Passage of the Marshes Gollum scrambles through the rocks, Frodo and Sam following. He leads them to the edge of the rocks and they see Mount Doom in the distance See? See? We've led you out. Hurry, Hobbitses. Hurry! Very lucky we find you. (he looks at Sam grinning) Nice Hobbit.

Sam places a foot on the ground below the rocks, and it sinks It's a bog. He's led us into a swamp. GOLLUM: A swamp, yes, yes. Come, master. We will take you on safe paths through the mist. Come, Hobbits! Come! We go quickly. (he gestures to them to follow) I found it. I did. The way through the marshes. Orcs don't use it. Orcs don't know it. They go around for miles and miles. Come quickly. Soft and quick as shadows we must be. The marshland stretches for miles. The camera moves out, and the hobbits appear as specks They stop to take a rest SAM: I hate this place. It's too quiet. There's been no sight nor sound of a bird for two days. GOLLUM: No, no birdses to eat. No crunchable birdses. We are famished! Yes! Famished we are, precious! (he grabs a worm and eats it) Here. (he throws Gollum some Lemba bread) GOLLUM: What does it eats? Is it tasty?

(Gollum takes a bite and starts coughing) It tries to chokes us! We can't eats Hobbit food! We must starve! Well, starve, then. And good riddance! GOLLUM: Oh, cruel Hobbit. It does not care if we be hungry. Does not care if we should die. (he looks at Frodo) Not like master. Master cares. Master knows. Yes. Precious. Once it takes hold of us......it never lets go. Frodo touches the Ring. Gollum reaches out his hand too Don't touch me! They continue picking their way through the marshes. Marsh flames are everywhere, and in the water there are submerged bodies There are dead things! Dead faces in the water. GOLLUM: All dead. All rotten. Elves and Men and Orcses. A great battle long ago. Dead Marshes. Yes. Yes, that is their name. This way. Don't follow the lights. Sam's foot slips into the water GOLLUM: Careful now! Or Hobbits go down to join the dead ones......and light little candles of their own. Frodo stops to look at one of the faces in the water.

Suddenly it opens its eyes and Frodo tumbles forward into the water Frodo! Frodo is under the water. He sees all the bodies floating and moving around him, their hair and gowns flowing. They reach out hands towards him. Suddenly a hand grabs his back. It is Gollum, dragging him out of the water (looking confused at Gollum) Gollum? Master should be resting. Master needs to keep up his strength. (walks over to Gollum and crouches in front of him) Who are you? Mustn't ask us. Not its business. Gollum. Gollum. Gandalf told me you were one of the river-folk. Cold be heart and hand and bone Cold be travellers far from home He said your life was a sad story. They do not see what lies ahead When sun has failed and moon is dead You were not so very different from a Hobbit once. Were you? Smeagol. (looks up) What did you call me? That was your name once, wasn't it? A long time ago. My name. My name. Smeagol.

Suddenly they hear the screeching of the Nazgul FLASHBACK to see Gandalf fighting with the Balrog on top of Durin's tower GANDALF VOICEOVER: From the lowest dungeon to the highest peak...... I fought with the Balrog of Morgoth. Gandalf holds up Glamdring as a flash of lightening strikes it, and he plunges it into the Balrog who falls from the peak and lands on the snowy slopes below Until at last I threw down my enemy......and smote his ruin upon the mountainside. Gandalf is seen lying on the snow, with a bloody nose Darkness took me......and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars and galaxies reel above him leading to a blinding bright white light GANDALF VOICE OVER: Stars wheeled overhead......and every day was as long as a life age of the Earth. But it was not the end. I felt life in me again. The white light fades and Gandalf is seen lying naked in the snow. His wounds are healed his hair and beard are snowy white. He gasps (back in the forest) I've been sent back...... until my task is done.

GANDALF: I am Gandalf the White. And I come back to you now......at the turn of the tide. All four walk through the forest. Gandalf now wears a grey cloak over his white robes GANDALF: One stage of your journey is over. Another begins. We must travel to Edoras with all speed. Edoras? That is no short distance! We hear of trouble in Rohan. It goes ill with the king. Yes, and it will not be easily cured. GIMLI: Then we have run all this way for nothing? Are we to leave those poor Hobbits here......in this horrid, dark, dank tree-infested--? (Groans are again heard in the forest) I mean, charming......quite charming forest. GANDALF: It was more than mere chance that brought Merry and Pippin to Fangorn. A great power has been sleeping here for many long years. The coming of Merry and Pippin will be like the falling of small stones......that starts an avalanche in the mountains. ARAGORN: In one thing you have not changed, dear friend. (Gandalf looks curious) You still speak in riddles.

(they laugh) GANDALF: A thing is about to happen that has not happened since the Elder Days. The Ents are going to wake up.....and find that they are strong. Strong?! (the forest groans again) Oh, that's good. GANDALF: So stop your fretting, Master Dwarf. Merry and Pippin are quite safe. In fact, they are far safer than you are about to be. (mutters to himself) This new Gandalf's more grumpy than the old one. They are outside the forest now. Gandalf whistles a long high loud whistle. From the distance a great white horse comes galloping towards them That is one of the Mearas......unless my eyes are cheated by some spell. GANDALF: (Gandalf greets the bowing his head to him and stroking him) Shadowfax. He is the lord of all horses......and has been my friend through many dangers. They all ride off at great speed to Edoras Scene 16 ~ The Song of the Entwives In Fangorn. Merry and Pippin are sitting in Treebeard's branches, as he walks through the forest.

Treebeard is reciting Lord of the Rings Names at BabyNames.com « Back to Baby Names Lists J.R.R. Tolkien had a fascination with language and etymology. Not only did he create most of these names specifically for the land of Middle-Earth, Professor Tolkien often incorporated the actual background stories and meanings for these names directly into his novels! If you're a Tolkein fan, or just love to read, you might want to consider some of these character names when choosing baby names for your baby. Unless otherwise noted, names and information are from both the books and the movies. Aragorn A human ranger who guides the first part of the Fellowship of the Ring, also known by his Human nickname, Strider. Later revealed to be the true heir to the throne of Gondor. Arod A horse of Rohan, given to Legolas by Eomer on their first meeting to aid them in their journey. Arod means swift in Old English. Arwen Undomiel Elf-maiden of Rivendell, betrothed to Aragorn and of ancient Maiarin descent. Arwen means noble maiden while Undomiel means Evenstar. Balin Dwarf treasure seeker from The Hobbit.

His skeleton is discovered by The Fellowship in the Mines of Moria. Banazir The Hobbit name for Samwise Gamgee the hobbit, both meaning half-wise. (books) Beregond The first Captain of the White Company of Gondor and the guard of Faramir. (books) Bergil Son of Beregond. He and his father were guides of Pippin in Minas Tirith. (books) Bilbo Baggins Hobbit adventurer who discovers the One Ring on the ground of a passage through the Misty Mountains. Bilbo passes his ring on to Frodo and retires to Rivendell, beginning the adventures in The Lord of the Rings. Boromir Son of Denethor, brother of Faramir. Boromir was sent by his father to Rivendell to represent the Kingdom of Gondor at the Council of the Ring. Bregalad A rowan Ent whose name means Quickbeam. Bregalad was the first to declare war on Isengard. He was assigned by Treebeard to watch over Pippin and Merry and appears mainly in the book The Two Towers, although fans say they can spot him in the movies.

Barliman Butterbur Owner and proprietor of the Inn of the Prancing Pony in Bree where the four hobbits, including Frodo, meet Strider for the first time. Celeborn Lord of the Galadhrim, husband of Galadriel and co-ruler of Lothlorien. Denethor Steward of Gondor and Father of Boromir and Faramir. (books, movies) Kills himself in fit of insanity after seeing his apparently dead son, Faramir, by setting himself on fire and jumping from the top of Minas Tirith. (movies) Duilin Name of Gondolin's group of best archers. Duilin means Swallow. (books) Elbereth Githoniel One of the ancient arch-angels, also known as Varda, the creator of all light. She is revered by the Elves of Middle-Earth and the most feared enemy of Melkor. (books) Elessar Name given to Aragorn by the Elves meaning Elfstone. Elladan One of the sons of Elrond. (books) Elrond Halfelven Patriarch of the Rivendell Elves.

Hundreds of years before the events of The Lord of the Rings Elrond, along with the man Isildur, led a united army of Elves and Men to defeat Sauron the first time at the end of the Second Age of Middle-Earth. Elros Legendary Half-elf of Middle-Earth who chose to become mortal. (books) Eomer Nephew of King Theoden and one of the Riders of Rohan. Brother of Eowyn. Eowyn Niece of King Theoden and sister to Eomer. Estel Code name for Aragorn used by the Elves while attempting to conceal his true identity as heir to the throne of Elendil. (books) Fangorn The deep wooded home of the Ents. Faramir Son of Denethor and brother to Boromir (books, movies). Faramir assists Frodo and Samwise in their journey to Mordor. (movies) Fimbrethil Lost Entwife of Treebeard who has not been seen in over 3000 years. (books) Finglas An Ent who liked to sleep a lot. Also known as Leaflock for his leafy hair.

(books) Fladrif A reclusive Ent also known as Skinbark who refuses to come down off the mountainsides and fight. (books) Frodo Baggins Hobbit nephew of Bilbo Baggins. Bearer of the One Ring throughout The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Galadriel Wife of Celeborn and co-ruler of Lothlorien. Gandalf AKA Gandalf the Gray, Gandalf Greyhame. Master Wizard and architect of the journey of the Ring. Dies and is reborn as Gandalf the White to finish his task on Middle Earth. Gimli Dwarf, son of Gloin. Travels with the Fellowship of the Ring and then with Legolas and Aragorn. Has friendly competition with the Elf, Legolas. Gloin Dwarf, father of Gimli. One of the original 12 dwarf adventurers from The Hobbit. (books) Glorfindel Elf of Rivendell who leads Elvish forces from Grey Havens, Rivendell and Lothlorien against Angmar in battle.

(books) Also appears in Lothlorien as Captain of the Elvish Guard and later assists with his army in the Battle of Helm's Deep, where he is slain. (movies) Gollum Wretched creature who lives in the Misty Mountains and possesses the One Ring for nearly half a century. Pursues Bilbo to retrieve the Ring after it is lost. Was once a Hobbit named Smeagol. Gollum's name comes from the nasty sound he makes when coughing. Gwaihir The greatest of the Eagles. Rescued Gandalf from Saruman's prison atop Orthanc and led the Eagles with Gandalf to rescue Frodo and Samwise from the slopes of Mount Doom before it erupts. Halbarad A Dunedain ranger like Aragorn. Halbarad led a company of rangers to assist Aragorn in the battle of Pelennor and brought a message to him from Arwen. (books) Hasufel Horse of Rohan, given to Aragorn by Eomer upon their first meeting to assist in their travels. Hirluin A man of Gondor from Lebennin.

He brought men to fight the final War of the Ring and died at the breaking of the door to the citadel of Gondor. (books) Isildur Legendary Dunedain man of the Second Age. Fled Numenor upon its destruction to the south with his brother to found the land of Gondor. Years later, during battle with Sauron, he cuts the One Ring from Sauron's hand destroying Sauron's physical form. He refuses to destroy the One Ring in the fires of Mount Doom and is later killed by an Orc raiding party. Legolas Silvan Elf of Mirkwood originally of Sindarin descent, and part of the original Fellowship of the Ring. After parting ways with Frodo and Samwise, Legolas adventures with Aragorn and Gimli to rescue Merry and Pippin and finally onwards to the battle of Pelennor Fields at Gondor. Luthien Tinuviel Great grand-mother of Elrond. Had affair with the mortal Beren. Luthien means either enchantress or blossom. Tinuviel means daughter of the starry twilight.

(books) Meriadoc Brandybuck Hobbit, AKA Merry who travels with the original Fellowship before being taken hostage along with Pippin by a roving band of orcs. Nimrodel An Elf-maiden of Lothlorien who was lost crossing the Ered Nimrais journeying to rejoin her lover Amroth and leave for Valinor. A river in Lothlorien was named after her passing. (books) Orald Nickname for Tom Bombadil given by Men. Tom lives in the Old Forest with his wife, a river-spirit named Goldberry. He and his wife assist the Hobbits during the early part of their journey after leaving the Shire. (books) Peregrin Hobbit, AKA Pippin, is a mischievous hobbit that often gets himself and companions into trouble. Travels with Merry into the forest of Fangorn. Rohirrim Ancestral name of the tribe of horsemen who live on the plains of Rohan, currently governed by King Theoden. (books) Samwise Gamgee Hobbit friend and guardian of Frodo Baggins.

Assigned by Gandalf to accompany and watch over Frodo's safety while on the journey to destroy the One Ring. Saruman Traitorous Wizard of the White Tower and steward of Isengard. He is betrayed and killed by Wormtongue, ex-advisor to King Theoden. Sauron Once a most powerful member of an ancient divine race of beings called the Maiar, Sauron, meaning Abhorred, was enthralled by the first Dark Lord, Morgoth, betraying the Maiar and their masters, the Valar. After Morgoth was defeated in battle and banished to the Outer Void, Sauron rose in his place and using deception, fooled the Elves, Dwarves and Men into accepting gifts of magic rings wrought by him to be controlled by the One Ring of Power. Sauron is eventually defeated by Frodo when the One Ring is cast into the fires of Mount Doom in Mordor. Shadowfax Gandalf's steed through most of The Lord of the Rings, Shadowfax is considered to be the greatest of all horses of the Third Age. He is of the mearas breed who are descended from the first tamed wild horse, Felarof.

King Theoden King of Rohan, the plains horsemen. Under thrall of Saruman via Wormtongue and is revived by Gandalf the White. Tintalle Another name for Elbereth Gilthoniel, meaning Star-kindler. Treebeard Master Ent of Fangorn. Discovers Merry and Pippin in his forest after they escape from the orcs. After hearing news of the calamity facing the outside world and much discussion, Treebeard and fellow Ents are encouraged to attack Isengard, bringing Saruman's reign of terror to an end.

Question: Name the Ent who befriends Merry and Pippin in Fanghorn forest.
Answer: Treebeard